The main character in Their Eyes Are Watching God is Janie. She is the person most emphasized on. The townspeople love to talk about her when they actually have no idea what she is about or what happens to her. They like to come up with rumors and talk about her behind her back because she isn't just like them.
Janie is more free spirited than most people in that time. She did what she wanted, when she wanted to and didn't have to ask anybody about it. She was happy that way and it was her way of enjoying life. When she was younger, she was forced to mary a man she didn't want to and that wasn't uncommon for women in her time. When she got older is when her free spirited side came out. That was when she was the happiest.
Janie liked to watched the bees go from flower to flower. To her, it showed a great freedom she felt that everyone should have. She spent most of her time sitting underneath the pear tre in her back yard.
"You know, honey, us colored folkis is branches without roots and that makes things come 'round in queer ways." This is how Jaine feels about life. She knows that being colored is harder than if you were white in her time. IN the tie of this story, colored people were still slaves and not equal to white people. The colored people basically kept to themselves.
Janie's life wasn't clean cut and happy. She learned to deal with the problems that come to her and that's what makes her strong. She learned to take what comes to her at face value. Nothing more, nothing less.
Janie is more free spirited than most people in that time. She did what she wanted, when she wanted to and didn't have to ask anybody about it. She was happy that way and it was her way of enjoying life. When she was younger, she was forced to mary a man she didn't want to and that wasn't uncommon for women in her time. When she got older is when her free spirited side came out. That was when she was the happiest.
Janie liked to watched the bees go from flower to flower. To her, it showed a great freedom she felt that everyone should have. She spent most of her time sitting underneath the pear tre in her back yard.
"You know, honey, us colored folkis is branches without roots and that makes things come 'round in queer ways." This is how Jaine feels about life. She knows that being colored is harder than if you were white in her time. IN the tie of this story, colored people were still slaves and not equal to white people. The colored people basically kept to themselves.
Janie's life wasn't clean cut and happy. She learned to deal with the problems that come to her and that's what makes her strong. She learned to take what comes to her at face value. Nothing more, nothing less.